Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	lord_n	spirit_n	6,606	5	5.1403	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42012	A voice of comfort sounded forth and sent into the world to all the mourners in Zion who are born of the birth immortal wherein is declared the purpose of the living God concerning the righteous and the wicked / by Tho. Green.	Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing G1847; ESTC R28047	5,402	10

established but that now the Lord should take me and mine out of this World this somtimes proves an exercise to my mind a grief unto my heart and the more because the wicked boast themselves against God thereby Oh thou tender one be not at this cast down for the Lord hath born long but now is risen as a Lion out of a thicket he hath taken notice how the wicked hath oppressed the Righteous and made a spoyle of the upright in heart and how they have determined to banish them into far Countries to force them into vacant Islands but they shall not have their end for many shall dye in their own land for now the Lord hath sent the destroying Angel forth and hath given him Commission to reap the Earth for the Lord himself will make the decission and the wheat he will gather into his garner but the chaffe and the tears he will burn with unquenchable fire and though the righteous dye they dy in the Lord and shall awake unto everlasting life but the wicked to shame and everlasting contempt And they that be wise said Daniel shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever for the Lord is judge himself who forsaketh not his Saints they are preserved for ever but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off who watcheth to slay the righteous but the Lord will not leave him in his hand nor condemn him when he is judged But they that have remembred their Creator in the dayes of their youth and have remembred and considered their latter end and have known the Spirit of the Lord to teach them to number their dayes and that hath applyed their hearts to wisedome these shall rest from their labours and be blessed who dye in the Lord and shall live with him for evermore therefore none be troubled who have believed the report of truth and have known the arme of the Lord revealed and in the patient Spirit dwells And with old Ely say it t is the Lord let him doe what he will for all thy thoughts and cares will but trouble thee and be a meanes to remove thee from thy rest and to draw thee from thy habitation Oh let these thy Tryals and Tribulations have this effect in thy heart that thou thereby may have patience and experience the Lords goodness every day for assuredly all things shall work together for the good of them that fear and love the Lord if all things be then the death of his Saints and Servants whose Names are written in the Lambs book of Life who have delighted to follow him through the Regeneration but the wicked will the Lord Plague in the furnace of his Fury whose portion is appointed in the Lake prepared for the Devil and his Angels But he will say to the Righteous who delights to doe his will on Earth Come yee blessed receive the Kingdom prepared for you And to the wicked who hath delighted in wickedness upon the face of the Earth these are on the left hand Cursed and are to goe into everlasting Torments for evermore but Gods Covenant stands sure with the Righteous and cannot be Altered because the Lord never changeth therefore are his People not Consumed by their many Enemies in the World But further saith the tender hearted Childe of God I have a weight and burden upon my heart to see Gods Judgements and his vials powering forth upon the Earth and the Sea and yet few layeth it to heart many there be indeed that mourne because of their sorrow yet they depart not from their sin neither turne from their Transgressions which have been the very cause of Gods heavy Judgments many are leight and wanton and live in pleasure far from the state of the people of Ninevy who humbled themselves from the Highest to the Lowest And had not I known something of the goodness of the Lord I should Judge their state better then mine Oh therefore consider thou afflicted one that this was the state of David in the dayes of old who saw the wicked in prosperity and they had no bonds in their death and their eyes stood out with fatness they had more then heart could wish but when he entred into the Sanctuary of the Lord he considered their end although he thought in time he had washed his hands in innocency because he was poor and needy and his heart was wounded within him he said I depart like a shaddow that declineth and am shaken off as the Grashopper my knees are weak through fasting and my flesh hath lost all fatness I became a rebuke unto many they that looked upon mee shaked their heads yet for all this will I give thanks unto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among the multitude for he will stand at the right hand of the poor to save him from them that would condemn his Soule And further saith the poor broaken hearted one saying here is a cry with the ungodly as dyeth the wicked so dyeth the righteous and both have one event It 's true the natural bodyes of both dye yet there is a great difference between the death of the righeteous and the death of the wicked for Balaam said Oh that he might dye the death of the righteous and that his latter end might be like unto his for he saw there was goodly dwelling in the tents of Jacob and that the end of those that abode therein would be pretious because the Righteous who have minded to follow the Lord in his Righteous Judgments in which holiness and purity they have learned but the wicked have run from the Lord into wickedness and have done dispight to the Spirit of Grace and hath loved pleasures more then the Lord and have said as those wicked ones in the dayes of old to Jesus the Lord of Life Get thee out of our Coasts and as for the Lord we desire not the knowledg of his wayes and for these 〈◊〉 this day and at all times it will be a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God for there is no peace to the wicked saith the Spirit of the Almighty but the fruit of Righteousness is peace to them that walk righteously and the effect is quietness for evermore this by the Spirit of the Lord is true and shall stand for ever Therefore thou Childe of the living God feele the power of the endless life to keep the heart in awe before the Lord out of the Reasonings and Consullings about those things that may be seen with the natural eye for the saving Power and Comforts of God is onely to be witnessed within by a sinking down into the measure of Christ manifest in thy mortal flesh then thou wilt know the Lords Christ to rule in thy heart who brings glad tidings and publisheth peace and brings Solvation and saith in the Daughter of Zion thy God Reigneth this was he that SIMEON waited for it being revealed unto him that he should not taste death till he had seen the Lords Christ And when this was accomplished he said now let thy servant depart in peace according to thy word for my eyes hath seen thy Salvation So thou that hast had that Spiritual eye oppened whereby thou hast seen and tasted of the good word of God look not out at the works which the Lord is working in the Earth and the desolation that he is making among the Sons of men but remember Dinah who went out and came in ravished so keep close in the pure seed of life in which thou wilt see all things possible with the Lord and by his own works he will be glorified and by his power and judgments he will be known to all Nations So blessed art thou that lyeth down in the Kingdom and Patience of Jesus The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you and his Peace rest upon you for ever-more 7th Month 14th 1665. Given forth in the bowel● of love and good will to all the Children of the Lord by your Companion in tribulation and rejoycing T. G.